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You have the greatest input needed with costume ideas and that is, your ideas. You do not really have to buy or rent a costume if you do not want to. You can use your own innovative ideas and



make a completely unique costume. The first step is to know about the situation. You would not want to have some glittering and jazzy costume for a formal dinner. On the other hand you do not want to dress professionally and formally for a hip party.

For a fancy dress party, you probably have the maximum liberty to run your imagination wild. For example, you can play Pinocchio in Mystery in the Library with a cardboard pencil nose and tying it on with white or skin coloured elastic. A heavily built person can colour his skin to become Aladdin’s Genie. Think of the historical character or a character from your favourite Shakespearean play and start preparing the “period-specific” dresses and ensembles to match with it. Sure, this will be an exclusive costume, which no one can copy.

Innovative, creative and imaginative are the key essentials to creating a fancy dress costume. Have a good look in your wardrobe for everyday clothing that you can use. A baseball themed event can have you posting a hilarious slogan on a T-shirt. You can dress up quite easy as a klutz by wearing mismatched clothes or odd socks.

Have you ever tried playing with watercolour tubes that your kids may have lying around? You can take these and dress your kids in a regular shirt and pair of shorts and draw a moustache and put a hat and holster on them. Then just enjoy how much they love their new looks. Costumes can have a great impact on the people who see them on you. If you are addressing an issue, try using a costume to get people’s attention and draw them into what you are trying to say.

Let’s say you are trying to address the issue of eating genetically modified fruits and vegetables. You can dress in a tomato or carrot costume, this will help the viewers get more interested when you are talking about the pros and cons of genetically modified fruits and vegetables. This is a good way to make your message stick out in the minds of the viewers and less boring than reading it from somewhere.

Your costume ideas in a sense can add value to your life. It is a reflection of your attitude toward life. If you want to have fun, design a costume that will take you out from your busy life. If you are mad about Discos, the dance craze of the 1970s, you can reflect the same carefree mix of fashion and fun with your costume. As an earnest fan of Marilyn Monroe or Sherlock Homes, you can pay your tribute by dressing up like them. Plan your costumes for all occasions, be it Christmas or Halloween, in a different way. Don’t buy expensive dresses and ready made costumes, instead, design them.